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Stupid broker tricks
An SI Board Since February 1999
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Emcee:  Kevin Podsiadlik Type:  Unmoderated
Introduction Compact
Brokers live, eat, and breathe Wall Street. So naturally you would expect them to know more about investing than you, right? Well...

Post here your favorite stories about brokers who clearly did not know what they were talking about. I am looking for less in terms of bad recommendations as outright factual errors about rules, laws, etc.
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10 Howdy, It's been awhile since your post, but I've got a similar experiaugustus-4/13/1999
9 DO YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT DAYTRADING? How about the factMichael Turner-3/15/1999
8 Hey Mike, whats with the spam.--Gary gbh-3/13/1999
7 For anyone that is a reasonably active trader, I highly recommend using a brokeMichael Turner-3/12/1999
6 Opened an account at Datek last month and even though they call themselves (asJB2-2/24/1999
5 An all time mind blower with an online trading company... One day I sold $5k K A Anderson-2/24/1999
4 Your broker was at least partially right. In order to unbox a short by sellingmod-2/23/1999
3 I followed some thinly-traded corporate bonds listed on the NYSE and noticed theWhartHog-2/23/1999
2 Your broker just wanted to look like he 'cared.' It was probably compGROUND ZERO™-2/23/1999
1 Recently I elected to unbox a short position. I erred in that I had failed to Kevin Podsiadlik-2/23/1999
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